I have been recently checking out the activities of the well known and widely respected GREENPEACE movement and have been shocked at my findings!
Greenpeace was set up in 1971 by scientists who were quite rightly worried by the direction humanity is heading but over the years they have been corrupted by quasi-marxist dogma. This has undermined their credibility as a trustworthy organisation that should be listened to.
For instance many of their activists nowadays are former marxists who sought a new political home after the fall of communism in 1989. As a result of this Greenpeace are strangely quiet when it comes to Leftist governments (Hugo Chavez comes to mind here) ignoring ecological issues while Western democracies are routinely demonised by them. Greenpeace were also silent when Saddam Husssein caused the biggest oil spill in history by spilling millions of tons of oil into the gulf. In fact on this issue all their fire was turned on the Coalition for responding to Iraq`s aggression in the first place!
Greenpeace also endangered innocent lives in Zimbabwe a while back by stopping food aid from reaching them. They said the food was dangerous (GM) but this very GM food has been consumed by people for years will no ill effects.
But perhaps their greatest failure lies in their obsessive opposition to nuclear power. Nuclear power is perfectly safe if responsibly managed and alot safer than fossil fuel emmisions that are causing global warming. Nuclear power doesn`t release any greenhouses gases into the athmosphere.
Now don`t get me wrong, I believe that global warming is a real danger to us all and it`s results will become potentially devastating for future generations if we don`t make some serious changes to the way we go about doing things. For instance we need to find a way to slash the rate of greenhouse gas emmisions into the athmosphere or else life for our grandchildren won`t be worth living, hence my support of nuclear power.
We will also have to start recycling stuff alot more too in order to conserve resources.
Another thing we have to do is to greatly increase spending on research for developing alternative energy sources so we stop being so dependent on oil.
Yes, there is a real need for a strong well organised enviromental lobby with real influence.
Sadly however the clapped out corrupt old leftists who are at present raising the ecology banner are not fit to carry out this vital job.
Greenpeace was set up in 1971 by scientists who were quite rightly worried by the direction humanity is heading but over the years they have been corrupted by quasi-marxist dogma. This has undermined their credibility as a trustworthy organisation that should be listened to.
For instance many of their activists nowadays are former marxists who sought a new political home after the fall of communism in 1989. As a result of this Greenpeace are strangely quiet when it comes to Leftist governments (Hugo Chavez comes to mind here) ignoring ecological issues while Western democracies are routinely demonised by them. Greenpeace were also silent when Saddam Husssein caused the biggest oil spill in history by spilling millions of tons of oil into the gulf. In fact on this issue all their fire was turned on the Coalition for responding to Iraq`s aggression in the first place!
Greenpeace also endangered innocent lives in Zimbabwe a while back by stopping food aid from reaching them. They said the food was dangerous (GM) but this very GM food has been consumed by people for years will no ill effects.
But perhaps their greatest failure lies in their obsessive opposition to nuclear power. Nuclear power is perfectly safe if responsibly managed and alot safer than fossil fuel emmisions that are causing global warming. Nuclear power doesn`t release any greenhouses gases into the athmosphere.
Now don`t get me wrong, I believe that global warming is a real danger to us all and it`s results will become potentially devastating for future generations if we don`t make some serious changes to the way we go about doing things. For instance we need to find a way to slash the rate of greenhouse gas emmisions into the athmosphere or else life for our grandchildren won`t be worth living, hence my support of nuclear power.
We will also have to start recycling stuff alot more too in order to conserve resources.
Another thing we have to do is to greatly increase spending on research for developing alternative energy sources so we stop being so dependent on oil.
Yes, there is a real need for a strong well organised enviromental lobby with real influence.
Sadly however the clapped out corrupt old leftists who are at present raising the ecology banner are not fit to carry out this vital job.
